Now, I have heard repeatedly that these BID Patrol officers have no arrest powers beyond those that every private citizen has. You can read the full story in the arrest report, although it doesn’t answer the main question I have about this incident: How did the LAPD decide to arrest Jones for battery rather than the BID Patrol officers? When LAPD officers Adams (#34837) and Galicia (#41404) showed up and accepted the man into custody with the approval of their supervisor, LAPD Sgt. Instead they arrested him for battery for kicking Coogle. Coogle claimed that the man kicked him during this episode, and ultimately they didn’t even arrest him for violating LAMC 41.18(d). Soon all four of them are piled on top of him and trying to put handcuffs on him. At 3:55 in the video one officer says to another “you want him?” The other says yes, so they grab him and push him over. They talked to him for almost four minutes, during which time he didn’t answer their questions and mostly ignored them.
On November 23, 2015, at least four BID Patrol security guards ( Mike Coogle, along with Wissman, Tizano, and Cox) confronted a man who was sitting on the sidewalk in front of the Metro Red Line station at Hollywood and Vine. Stop resisting! Stop resisting, dude.This would be unbelievable if the whole thing weren’t captured on video.
